Jenny Westrick

Graduate Student in HistoryStatus: Post-Qualification, ABD

Research Interests

My research interests lie in late-medieval and early modern Britain and Europe, with a particular focus on seventeenth-century England. Broadly speaking, I study the intersection of religion, law, and medicine; more specifically, I'm exploring sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beliefs about the transmission of character and culpability through bloodlines. Other topics of teaching and research interest include the history of the body, Reformations, crime, the family, demonology, and witchcraft.